Green light for E-Go despite poor performance

The E-Go project is still within financial plans. A statement that the Budget Control Commission made on Monday having been given the green light by Infrastructure Minister Claude Wiseler.

14.03.2012

The E-Go project, a concept of which was born in 2008, is still within financial plans. A statement that the Budget Control Commission made on Monday having been given the green light by Infrastructure Minister Claude Wiseler for the electronic public transport travel card system.

In 2008, 16.7 million euros was granted, with additional costs amounting to 15.2 million euros. Despite the costs, the system remains under the budget cap. Operating costs are estimated at one million euros per year.

"It is not acceptable that maintaining the system will be continued by the company that developed it," said the President of the Committee, Anne Brasseur. “Therefore, it will now be put out public tender”. However Brasseur went on to say that E-Go has performed disappointingly and below expectations, mostly because passengers could not see much benefit from using it.

Minister Wiseler announced that in 2018, a national electronic travel system, similar to that currently used in the capital will be introduced. Wiseler expected the cost to be 20 million euros.